The problem is Devil runs the world. He is lier and murderer. This is the reason why Hitler got the power, but Christ was executed as "blasphemer" and "rioter" by denunciation of clergy. This is the reason why the whole world is Sodom. That's why we've got the Gospel about the God's kingdom. Jehovah would put everything in order. The dead will be resurected and we'll meet our loved ones again! :-)
They were very simple, compared to any angled deck carrier. Hell, our first carriers still had 8" guns to fight a surface battle! Eventually replaced with 5"/38 for Flak use.
Veteran of USS Midway, USS Constellation, and the "Big E" .. I can honestly say I was rarely bored. ( refueling at Sea was not eliminated for the Enterprise. Still had a lot airplanes to fuel ) Fair documentary not too bad a lot of mistakes. But not bad ones. You can tell the narrator is a land lubber
These men and women of the Navy are incredible. But what created these machines and service men & women is the American civilization. That society enabled the creation of a military system that got the job done. That great American society created the military that won WWII. Americans must stay the course and keep that society alive and healthy.
Ok, this is wrongly titled: it is about the British aircraft carriers and the British contribution (real or imagined) to the operation of all carriers, not the carriers in general. US had already started the carrier deal in 1912, when it launched the first plane off a ship and had it land back on the deck. But no mention of that: instead, it is all about how the Brits invented it all, developed it all, and were/are the font of all ingenuity. Too bad it is a just a British fantasy.
The say HMS ‘Renown’ when they really mean HMS ‘Furious’ I think. ‘Renown’ remained a battlecruiser & was never a carrier to my knowledge. She’s in fact one of the ships the Brits could’ve saved for a 20th century capital ship museum, buuuut nooooo! Or HMS ‘Warspite’ would’ve been good or the lovely HMS ‘Vanguard’, if they wanted one with no battle damage. It’s just so sad.
+1 for mocking America for its large expensive fleet and then a few minutes later saying the British Jump CV's couldn't carry enough Harriers to protect it's ships in the Falklands.
Idiots, the Harrier is an attack aircraft. Not a fighter or "jump jet"! Thus it was only capable for day ground attack, self defense in the visual air to air mode, it carried no radars and would be directed by the ship's TAC for air to air intercept using its gun or sidewinder AA missile. It is not a fighter, fighters defend the fleet.
@@chriszelez7970 In fact in the Falklands the Sea Harrier FR S1 proved itself to be a very capable fighter in the air defence role, shooting down 20 of the enemy without loss. The upgraded FA2 version was even better.
I spent 30 years on US Navy ships from 1961 to 1992. Your narrative suggests that the US Navy spent decades doggedly advancing their advance of the art of air combat at sea. I'm not going to throw numbers at that but the view from the gun deck was soul destroying boredom for weeks or months on end followed by moments of intense combat. There is no useful way to explain it; you had to be there.
As a Navy veteran, who served aboard a carrier I appreciate the documentary. I was fortunate to serve during a relatively peace time. Thank you to the men who served during WWII. Heros beyond heros.
The narrator has confused HMS Renown with HMS Furious. Renown was not converted into a semi-aircraft carrier. Furious was. More errors in the narration. Certainly a misleading account of the end of the Bismarck.
Glad to see all the color film of WW2 Navy crews in operation! They were all so young! So many, just boys. Age 18-22 or so? They sacrifice so much. I wonder what these Gallant young men of the 1940's would think of today's American? THIS is obviously not the future we all hoped for. Such a shame. GOD REST THEIR SOULS.
God made all people from one man, Adam. All people are brothers. The God saves people by preaching (1st Corinthians 1: 21). He has nothing to do with war. Unfortunately, the lying and corrupt clirgy is silent about this. They even bless racists and nazis in the name of God. The problem is that the Devil rules the world. He is a liar and a murderer. This is why deception and violence are everywhere. This is the reason why people cry over stray cats and hate their brothers. This is the reason why Hitler got the power, but Christ was executed as "blasphemer" and "rioter" by denunciation of clergy. This is the reason why the whole world is Sodom. That's why we have the Gospel about the Kingdom of God. Jehovah will put everything in order. He has anointed the king, Jesus Christ. The dead will rise and we will meet our loved ones again! :-)
Interesting. My grandfather served on HMS Indefatigable duri d the battle of midway. He told me of how the zeros would destroy the US decks but bounced off the steel armour decking of indefatigable. Apparently 3 planes struck, one crashed on deck and another took out a lower hanger of men 200 of them lost. The compliment was according to him 2000. He died 2 years ago 2018, he was 98. I miss watching stuff like this and asking him about facts. I'm 53 so had that privilege for half a century. Just wanted to share folks
Not to disrespect your grandfather, but he was probably talking about Okinawa. There was widespread Kamikaze attacks during Okinawa and there is record that the HMS Indefatigable served during that battle. There is no record of the Indefatigable (or any warship of other allied nations) at the Battle of Midway. That he survived the carnage at Okinawa is remarkable. Many thanks to your Grandfather and his comrades!
American carriers were more offensive minded and carried more aircraft than the british carriers, the US always believed in bringing the war to the enemy first and foremost, the same reason they did day bombing in Europe, it was the only way to destroy the luftwaffe which was a prerequisite for a successful invasion 😉
The problem is Devil runs the world. He is lier and murderer. This is the reason why Hitler got the power, but Christ was executed as "blasphemer" and "rioter" by denunciation of clergy. That's why we've got the Gospel about the God's kingdom. Jehovah would put everything in order. The dead will be resurected and we'll meet our loved ones again! :-)
My uncle Keith was a Lt. j.g., who flew a Corsair fighter off the U.S.S. Hornet (CV-12) during WW2. He passed away a few years ago at the age of 90. He never spoke about what he did during the war. A happy-go-lucky fellow, always with a smile and a laugh, I miss him. Fair winds and following seas, uncle Keith.
USN HM1 here. 1999-2019 (active 99-15).. got to be on the Enterprise for 6 months in 01 before 9/11, was my only real time at sea.. was ground side with mostly 2nd Mar Div 02-08 and then air wing. mag 2/6 from 09-14.. those old sailors and pilots have my utmost respect and admiration those guys were sailors and airmen and did a job we would be hard pressed to find people to willingly do now. Keep his memory and deeds alive kid so we won't forget it's important now more than ever
The Corsair is a favorite for me. Your Uncle Keith was fortunate in getting to fly this beautiful bird. The Navy decided they were to dangerous in flying off a carrier as the front of the plane was angled too high. Pilots had a rough time landing on carriers. Couldn't see what was in front of them upon landing. Proved to be to hazardous. Not only pilots and carrier crew personnel got injured or killed but many planes got damaged or destroyed. Could not have these kinds of problems during a battle. But the Navy knew it was a great plane & had many built for the Marines. It had the same 2000 hp motor in it that the P-47 used.
Hey Jack, the Corsair was made for the navy but because of visibility problems while landing was given to the Marine Corp for use on land.... the U.S. Navy never used it on aircraft carriers.... the British figured a way to land on an angle s I they made it work but the Navy never used them.
@@stevenvassalli2408 no, it just took a bit more skill and the navy did switch to corsairs with the advent of the kamikaze due to the increased performance
A typical response from a Yank who believes the US is automatically best at everything, all the time. Fucking hilarious. The Brits are a spent force without a doubt, but they were shaping the world long before you people had even come down from the trees.
Definitely was a little anglo-centric; god bless our cousins though, they did share quite a bit of technology with us. We simply had the money to utilize it, they did not.
That can be debated "the korean war" started as a "war" in june 1950, jowever already in 1939 south korean and US Military combined had waged a quite successful qar agains thr communist insurgensies with the most promintwent of them being the South Cholla and Taegu insurgensieis, and if we do count this then war was already ongoing, the offical US role and international stated in 1950 yes. the war long before. Look to Vietnam, the war there was going on for close to a decade before the amicans got involved, early 1950s, even late 1940 thouggh with the french vs the north vitenamese. so this about dates is not somthing to get stuck up in when it coes to wars, we must always count the build ups. like ww2 starting in 39 with attack on poland, or with the sanctions and the diplomacy of the annexations of checkoslivakia and austria and more....... Bitish military operations targeting geermany had began before the attck on poland.....which is the offical date, th3e rela fact is that it was never a ww2, just a ww1 with a long truce that germany broke
Getting catapulted off an aircraft carrier is about as much fun you can have and still keep tour clothes on! I did it once, off the USS Randolph CVS 15. That was in 1960.
I think this is fantastic because it’s exactly what these men went through. Most of these men are dead now. My father was a navigator on a B24 in the Pacific. Thank You for sharing
Is the B24 the aircraft that leaked fuel? I know there was one US bomber that did this, and the crew tended to keep the bomb doors slightly open to ventilate the fumes.
Curious how a good portion of this (all the earliest color footage) came directly from another documentary called "The Fighting Lady" which was narrated by Robert Taylor and followed ship life of the second 'Yorktown.' (CV-10).
You can't really shoot fresh footage though . It must be hard not to reuse footage for any subject from that period and a lot of footage seems to be RN and IJN and also many times used.
My grandfather served on the USS Enterprise during ww2. He was the guy that pulled the lever to release the planes. Sorry that is how it was described to me. I never met him. He died when my dad was kid.
The problem is Devil runs the world. He is lier and murderer. This is the reason why Hitler got the power, but Christ was executed as "blasphemer" and "rioter" by denunciation of clergy. That's why we've got the Gospel about the God's kingdom. Jehovah would put everything in order. The dead will be resurected and we'll meet our loved ones again! :-)
James Doolittle, in his biography, told that Billy Mitchel, a pilot who landed planes on carriers and tested bombing a battleship, dare to say that one day aicraft from carriers could sink battleships. That was heresy as battleships were considered as the ultimate power of the universe, and he was discharged in shame 2 years later. Ofter Billy Mitchel died, Pearl Harbor took place, and Mitchel's predictions became real.
Kinda weird...This video has way too little to do with WWII Carriers. Seems like 1/2 the video was about U.S. foreign policy and the military industrial complex. Was this supposed to be some kind of subliminal propaganda? Just stick to the titled topic. If I wanted a geo-political lesson I'd click on those videos instead (which I sometimes do).
Despite the inaccuracies and long intro, this documentary has a lot of good footage I never saw before. Worth watching just for that. Thanks for posting!
The 3 minute intro with spooky music, fuzzy and meandering footage should be taken out , and much editing should be done to correct numerous inaccuracies. But overall, well done and well worth watching .
Early in the development of carriers was very interesting and they did the best they could with what they had, but how many planes are on the ocean floor? I can only imagine.
@@pike100 it’s in ‘The Pacific’ by Hugh Ambrose. When the Navy sent this ship their new dive bomber Dauntless SBC2 they were doing trials and found out they couldn’t get the wings to lock (known problem), and all kinds of other problems. This meant 1/3 of the ship’s plane’s couldn’t fight, which pissed the captain off. To remedy this, instead of returning to port and dropping the planes off to have them fixed or whatever, he told his men, Captain Mike Browning I think, to push the damn planes off the ship. That was about 30 planes in that case. Can you imagine a plane not working right today and someone saying, hey push 30 f-16s off the ship! lol So yeah it’s true. Even during WWII there was a massive amount of waste. Of course you have to weigh operational vs tactical and strategic considerations. I.e. is it better to get in the fight with 30 planes less now, than later, when it might be too late?
@@pike100 also, just a reminder that the gov and mil don’t give a fuck about how they waste money see the billions of dollars of supplies we left to our “enemies” in Afghanistan.
@@pike100 this is why the fight against government waste is neverending. It has to be constantly fought, something a lot of people don’t grasp. When you’re not responsible for the equipment you’re using or the money you’re spending, as in the gov and mils case, you don’t care how much something costs. Our ancestors understood how hard won the money they earned was and they saw no reason to share it with a government that would inevitably waste it.
at 56 seconds on the intro is an amazing gun camera footage of a B17 going down shot to pieces an engine comes off wing with prop still spinning my feeling is the entire crew died on this plane a real horror show
The air campaign over Europe was a meat grinder. We all suffered serious losses, but so did the Germans. They were on borrowed time from the time we took out their ball bearing factory and oil holding tanks. The lack of ball bearings alone slowed them way down, especially in Russia, but that's another story.
OJ Simpson, Thankyou for your comment! The “thumbnail picture” at the right side of the title of the documentary is the USS Enterprise (CVN-65). The USS Enterprise that actually served in WWII was an entirely earlier and different aircraft carrier altogether. The WWII Enterprise had a straight flight deck as opposed to an angled flight deck. The CVN-65 Enterprise was nuclear-powered (the “first” “nuclear-powered” aircraft carrier). I can’t remember the numerical-designation of the WWII Enterprise but that ship saw some pretty nasty fighting against the Japanese during WWII! To me personally this has been a great documentary even though my ship the CVN-65 Enterprise wasn’t built until about 1959 or 1960 or so. WWII was a “nasty-ass”war for anyone that was in it. I was not born until September of 1954 so the “Korean War” and “WWII” took place before I was even born but I still love not only the ships but also all the airplanes of WWII. Thanks again for your comments!
The thumbnail is inappropriate to the subject. It shows a carrier with an angled flight deck. Angled flight deck research initially with painted dummy angled landing zones on conventional tarmac runways did not begin until 1952, seven years after the end of WW2.
@@ivanthemisunderstood6940 USA was bad ass enough to fight a war on two fronts...and win. Still haven't forgiven Eisenhower for letting the Russians have Berlin. Still, when it came to surrender, guess who the Nazi's surrendered to?
@@rwarren58 Germany was badass enough to fight a war on two fronts; USA was badass enough to fight a war in TWO hemispheres AND provide massive amounts of material to all its allies AND stop the Soviets from starving, butchering and enslaving western Europe like they did their own people. The Soviets defeated the Nazis. USA defeated the Japanese and the Soviets. Britain and France defeated themselves inspite of having the support of their former colonies.
Accurate and relevant thumbnails might also be appropriate for a documentary-style video. Your image = Carrier Enterprise (CVN-65) with an A4-Skyhawk jet aircraft parked on the desk. That carrier entered service in 1960, although had it been available to Admiral Nimitz in WWII, we could have wiped out the entire Japanese Fleet at either the Coral Sea or Midway in about 30 minutes. Otherwise, some nice footage you cobbled together.
Its rather too terse hey. "crippled by a swordfish , she was later sunk by a destroyer". He's skipped a line"she was later sunk , after being pummelled by naval guns and torpedoes from a fleet of battleships and cruisers, by a destroyer" .Not sure why the destroyer part is there. Its a fleet with battleship and cruisers. Of course there are lesser screens too.
The Harriers lack the range for fleet defense. The quantity carried by the small helicopter carriers adapted to the Harrier was inadequate. Had Argentina been equipped with first line aircraft and weapons, the United Kingdom would have lost the war. The few Super Étendards equipped with Exocet missiles clearly demonstrated the inadequacies of the Harrier and it's lack of range. The Harrier like the ships they flew from were performing task they were never intended to do. I am not criticizing the ships or the plane so much as the political policies that left the RN fighting a war on a shoestring.
The RN were very lucky that none of their carriers were struck by Exocets. The other issue with the Harriers used in the Falklands was the lack of look-down, shoot-down radar. They could not see below them and guide radar missiles even if the Harriers had been equipped with BVR missiles! The RN didn't get radar-equipped Harriers until the Sea Harriers was upgraded in the late 1980s with an AMRAAM-compatible radar. Those were actually the first European planes fielded with AMRAAMs. The RAF never upgraded its Harriers with radars capable of guiding BVR missiles. The USMC, Spanish, and Italian navies did upgrade their Harrier II's to equivalent standard of the USMC last Harrier version. The modded Harrier II's were rebuilt with F-18 Hornet noses that carried recycled APG-65 radar units after the US Navy (and USMC) pulled those units from F-18s that received APG-73 radar.
The title is a misnomer; this is not a history of specifically WW2 carriers but rather carrier evolution through time. And for that, it does a poor job telling the story. For a better attempt at representation, of carrier technology progress watch the Big Bigger Biggest series ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-68fML6M1A_Q.html
Britain being surpassed by everybody everywhere and all the time. Does sound familiar, today more than ever. The things we British have set solidly into the sand is long and painful.
Aye, but your legacy lives on here in the US, as well as globally. No need to feel bad. Also, mind you, what we spend on our military budget is absurd. One of the most important things is having the technology and the industrial capacity to ramp up production when necessary. That said, I am glad and aware that the force we possess and are thus able to project is the reason why a lot of bad things never happen in the first place. “Walk softly, carry a big stick.”
So why is your thumbnail the USS ENTERPRISE CVN-65 commissioned in 1965 and not a WW11 carrier? I know this because I was on the ENTERPRISE from 75 to 80.
Docu on Churchill: “you forgot the farmers. Churchill wouldn’t have been alive without wheat and meat” “Yeah but there were lots of farmers and farming was established and not a new thing, and...” “.... farmers are heroes as much as Churchill, it’s disgusting they weren’t mentioned” Etc etc
@52:11 these would be F-14 Tomcats and F-111's. Not F-4 Phantoms. I really get tired of the "pro-British" airpower documentaries. The Jolly Brits have little knowledge of what air power really is... @52:35 the Tomcat that shotdown the Libyan MiG is in the Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum, Steven F Udvar-Hazy Center, in Chantilly Virginia
If the officers seated at wardroom tables were pilots, they would be wearing wings. Elsewhere, you refer to the propeller shaft in the singular. The first line carriers had four shafts.
wow, the NAVY pilots were treated like kings, did you see that dinner-ware? holy crap. How did one person end up a cobbler working on shoes and the next guy is a Navy Pilot making some cash and eating like royalty. I bet they even had better furnishings in their bunk-beds
44:09 Introduces the E-2 Hawkeye A plane worth its own episode is the Grumman S-2 Tracker ASW plane. It was quickly made into the C-1 Trader, and they operated several of the E-1 Tracer plane with its huge top-mounted radome. As the Skyraider; piston-prop-driven purpose-built carrier-borne plane, and like it operated in combat roles into the '70s.
This documentary is supposed to be about aircraft carriers in World War II, right? Then why the hell does any plane that entered service after 1945 even get included???
I guess the Swordfish sank those four carriers at Midway, the Musashi and a couple of cruisers at Leyte Gulf, the Yamato at Yokohama. Damn I didn’t even know the UK had aircraft carriers at those battles!
That counts merchant shipping, mostly in the Med, not just warships. The Swordfish’s low speed and high stability made it an excellent attack aircraft against Axis convoys. Weirdly, Swordfish also managed a torpedo hit on Bismarck and crippled several Italian battleships at Taranto.
I love how in the scenes of American Hellcat Fighters and Grumman Avenger Torpedo planes attacking ground targets and shipping they have dubbed in the sound track of that super slow 20mm cannon fire instead of the super fast rate of fire of six .50cal machine guns ridding 1600 rounds a .just into the film. I know why they did that, because after the British Air Ministry finally with me up to the fact that even with ten or twelve machine guns like eventually on some hurricanes but especially the right gun original battle of Britain hurricanes and Spitfires that a infantry rifle cartridge, the .303, is near useless because it just didn't have the energy to do the damage you needed it to do in the very short time your rounds are going to be actually hitting the enemy. So finally they went with the 20mm and larger cannons. Even though the 20mm cannon shells do.Much more damage than the fifty cals I still think they made a mistake again. They should have gone with the tried and true fifties. If they wanted more punch than the significant power of six fifty cal machine guns which most American fighters had standard then they could have gone with eight of them like on the P47 Thunderbolt. The pilots that flew the Thunderbolts said when they hit the German fighters they were gunning for it simply shredded them with huge chunks flying off in all directions. The thunderbolts combat records hear this out as well. Even though the P47 was assigned to mostly all ground support missions due to its tremendous firepower and it's massive amount of armor making it like a flying tank, a tank that could fly at 460 mph that is, and it's exposure to German fighters was far less than fighters escorting the bombers even considering that all of the leading aces in the European Theatre flew P47s, actually I think the top ten are mostly P47s with a Mustang here or tgere. Those eight guns just could do so much more damage so much quicker than even the six of the mustangs that the second or two you have where rounds actually hit the enemies aircraft, that it translated into far more kills. If those same aircraft had been armed with the .303 I bet they wouldn't have downed half of that number, if that
@@Ashley-gi7um I second what she has said; if you’re able to write more clearly you will have a better chance at passing along that knowledge. Thank you for sharing all the same!
14:32 Thee Bismarck sunk by a destroyer. Well, you could say that. Half the british surface fleet was after the Bismarck and later found her cruising in a circle at 10 knots. They fired salvo after salvo onto the battleship, they fired countless torpedoes into it and late at night after many of the cruiser seized fire due to lack of ammonition the Bismarck finally exploded and sank. Some say due to self destruction, some say due to the hourlong bombardment of over 40.000 rounds. Sunk by a destroyer my rear end...
You have made an excellent statement! In fact, (I think), altogether, there have been three U.S. Navy ships named the “Enterprise”! The USS “Enterprise” of this documentary was involved in the “Vietnam Nam” War and then continued on for some years after! I would like to get some history books about some of these ships so that I could learn the actual facts better! Thanks for all the comments! It was a beautiful ship to be on in its day! (Extremely impressive!)
Wildly, flagrantly inaccurate. The narrator said that the Korean War started in 1949 at 39:30? Janson Media does the date 25 Jun 1950 mean anything to you? At 40:10 or so, only mention Skyraiders, but show Corsairs in addition to the Skyraiders. With respect to the strike on Libya, it was said that because US carriers are sovereign territory, the US could act unilaterally. Well, maybe those F111s that took off from England to make the strike didn't realize this and they snuck out of the UK before the Queen and Parliament could object. Horrible sight of the USS Franklin (CV-13). 1294 casualties with 807 sailors KIA from that inferno and its after effects.
Agreed. For every knucklehead that leaves a critical comment, I feel like posting, "and your better video is where????" But that just causes arguments.
I think that until every other nation gives up every aircraft and every ship and every rifle we will hold onto our fleet. just not worth the risk, especially because of politics. much better to have too much than not enough
The attempt to overly credit the British is rather pathetic. Normally, they do a great job. This was just sad. Claims about the Fairy is a really pathetic example.
